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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "ELLIOT FRANCIS" <online_elliot101@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:59:01 -1200
Subject: ATTN
ATTN:
I got your details after an extensive online search for a
reliable foreign
business partner.
It involves a time deposit of $48.3million (Forty Eight
Million And Three
hundred thousand United States Dollars only) in an account
in the
Netherlands.
The circumstances surrounding the death of the depositor
with no known
nominated successor has made it difficult to locate anyone
who is directly
related to the deceased.
With very strong feeling that no one will ever come forward
to claim the
funds and the investigation coming to a close after several
months, the need
for assistance becomes crucial, as a next of kin to the
depositor is
earnestly sought for and your name fits exactly the family
name of the
depositor and that is why i have contacted you today.
I have a legal and totally risk free means through which the
funds can be
released to you or your nominated bank account within a very
short time
after due documentation and authentication process.
The strategy is to use my position as his Attorney to
present you as a next
of Kin and beneficiary of the time deposit.
I expect your response and if in the affirmative, contact me
on my direct
Fax number: 0031-84 724 4423.or Phone: +31-644-961-187.You
can also send an
email to my private email address which is as follows:
online_elliot101@yahoo.com.hk . I shall advice you on what
we need to do on
receipt of a positive response from you.
Best regards,
Elliot Francis
Phone: +31-644-961-187
Lady Helen Crawford.
38 Old Church Street,
Manchester, England.
Here writes Lady Helen Crawford, suffering from cancerous
ailment. I was married to Sir William Crawford an Englishman
who is dead. When my husband was alive, he was into private
practice all his life. Our life together as husband and wife
lasted for about three decades without a child. My husband
died after a protracted illness. My husband and I made a vow
to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged
individuals in the society, as we both had passion for those
people who can not help themselves due to physical
disability or financial predicament. I can adduce this to
the fact that we both needed a Child from this relationship,
which never came.
When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of
Twenty Five Million Pounds Sterling(25,000,000.00 GBP) which
were derived from his vast estates and investment in capital
market with his bank here in UK(all records are kept with my
family lawyer). Presently, the money is still with the Bank.
Recently, my Doctor told me that, I have limited days to
live, due to the cancerous problems that i have been
suffering from. Though what bothers me most is the stroke
that I have in addition with the cancer. Hence, With this
hard reality that has befallen my family and me, I have
decided to donate this fund to you and i want you to use
this gift which comes from my Late husbands effort to
establish a charity home called "Crawford Charity
Foundation" for the upkeep of the down-trodden and persons
who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially.
I took this decision because I do not have any child that
will inherit this money and my late husband relatives are
bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my
husband hard earned money to be misused or invested into ill
perceived ventures. Hence the reason for taking this bold
decision. I do not need any telephone communication in this
regard due to my deteriorating health and also because of
the presence of my husband relatives around me. I do not
want them to know about this development, that is why I
cannot give this fund to anybody here in England, because my
Husband relatives are people who are highly placed here in
England, and will do very thing possible to frustrate all
attempts within this country. Moreso they do not know about
this Twenty Five Million Pounds sterling deposit that my
late husband made with his bank. Presently, this deposit is
only known by me, my family lawyer and now you.
So, i want you to Contact my family lawyer Barrister Paul
Westley (ESQ) with this specified email addressemail:
attnypaul_westley.chambes@yahoo.co.uk and Tell him that I
have WILLED the £25,000,000 to you by quoting my personal
reference number
Law/chamber/solicitors/rt/osb/WILL/9834520012, as I have
also notified him that I will be WILLING that amount to you
for a specific purpose and good work.
Please, assure me that you will act just as I have stated
herein. as i Hope to hear from you soon that you have
contacted my family lawyer with the email address that i
have given to you above, as he is presently waiting to
receive your reply.
Remain blessed your Sister,
Lady Helen Crawford
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